'Finding Portland' video hits the web with dazzling images of Oregon's biggest city

Finding Portland from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo.
A Portland video producer who has developed a touch with time-lapse photography put his latest creation online Wednesday. The extended valentine to the City of Roses brought a weekend conference of Big Idea people to their feet.

They spoke about their first major time-lapse project, "Finding Oregon," released last year, which Waller said has drawn more than a million views online.

Waller said the medium of time-lapse photography "offers us a completely different perspective than you have in the everyday experience."

At the end of their presentation, Waller and Canales rolled "Finding Portland," a nearly four-minute video shot in March and April with taking visuals of familiar sights that dazzle.

"It got a two-minute standing ovation," Waller said, "so I guess that was pretty well received."

View full sizeThomas Boyd/The OregonianPhotographers enjoy the dry December night night near the Hawthorne Bridge.

TEDx Portland is an offshoot of the 25-year-old organization called TED – for Technology/ Entertainment/ Design. The main organization's annual conference invites innovating thinkers and builders to give speeches of no more than 18 minutes. The talks are available free online. The next TED conference is in late June in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The lower-case x in TEDx means it is an independently organized local event. Other speakers at Saturday's TEDx at the Gerding Theater included Mayor Sam Adams and Sahar Alnouri, the global gender adviser for Mercy Corps.

Waller said "Finding Portland" was produced, shot and edited in 51 days and takes the viewer to downtown Portland, to Multnomah Falls, to Jeld-Wen Park for a Portland Timbers game and the Rose Garden with the Trail Blazers at home.

"Finding Portland" compiles 308,829 still photographs taken in more than 50 locations. Each second demanded nearly four hours of work from Waller, Canales, Steve Engman and Blake Johnston to produce. Peter Bosack composed the music.